About the Play:

Bunny is a full-length drama by Hannah Moscovitch. Aroused by inappropriate love, a young woman discovers the power of her own allure. Ever the outsider, she struggles with the socially acceptable only to find herself increasingly alone in her desires. Dangerous and disorienting, Bunny is a play about repressive social convention, personal inhibition and desire unleashed.

Bunny is a dive into a woman's personal history and relationship to sex from high school age, into her late thirties. Sorrel, nicknamed "Bunny", grew up with professor parents, where carob was dessert, reading passages of Canadian poetry aloud was entertainment, and canoeing was the only sport encouraged. No one really noticed the studious Sorrel until she turned seventeen, when late puberty suddenly transformed her into a hot dork. Boys wanted her and girls loathed her, and all at once Sorrel discovered the joys of sexuality and the pain of social rejection. Sorrel enters college as a self-proclaimed loser with no female friends, but then she meets Maggie. Maggie's unwavering friendship helps her shed her inhibitions and become more truly herself. The two women grow older, but when Maggie is diagnosed with cancer, Sorrel must choose between raw feeling and devotion. From one of Canada's boldest playwrights comes an intimate look into the sexual life of a young woman as she struggles with the power of her desires. It's a romance. It's sexy. Not always at the same time.

Bunny premiered in 2016 at The Stratford Festival's Studio Theatre in Stratford, Ontario. After rave reviews, the production was moved to the Tarragon Theatre in Toronto in 2018. Since then the play has been produced at professional theatres across Canada. The Western Canadian premiere was in 2022 at "The Cultch" in Vancouver.

Cast: 3 female, 4 male

What people say:

"In most love stories, a man is pursuing a woman who is hesitating. In that structure, the man is the protagonist and the woman is the antagonist. We have two thousand years of that. Bunny is a whole rewriting of the structure." — Hannah Moscovitch

"Honest emotion and raw carnality make Bunny a smash! ...This story of desire, morality and connection is hard not to fall in love with." — The Toronto Star

"If women's sexuality is typically played out in romantic canopy beds or pitch-black bedrooms, Moscovitch places it unabashedly under flickering fluorescent lights in a bar bathroom." — Stratford Beacon Herald

"...something rare: good, frank theatre about sex, erotic without being exploitative." — National Post

"...human sexuality is a complex thing, often shrouded in secrecy and shame as well as pleasure – all things that crop up with frank honesty in Hannah Moscovitch's stunning play Bunny." — NOW Magazine

About the Playwright:

Hannah Moscovitch is an acclaimed Canadian playwright and TV writer. Her plays have been widely produced across Canada, as well as in the United States, Britain, Europe, Australia and Japan. She has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and the prestigious Windham Campbell Literary Prize administered by Yale University (she is the first Canadian playwright to win the prize). She's twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award, and twice for the Siminovitch Prize, as well as the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize honouring the best English-language women writers worldwide.